Four planes and 49 staff members have arrived from Cyprus and Greece to aid in fighting the fire that continues to rage across Israel sincer Tuesday with new areas threatened by flames as other blazes have come under control.
In a rare interview with a Palestinian newspaper, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman made it clear that Hamas, the terrorist organisation that runs the Gaza Strip, will not survive another attack on Israel.
A Palestinian terrorist who killed a police officer and a 60-year-old woman, and injured several others, Sunday morning in a shooting rattack in Jerusalem, was supposed to have started a jail sentence on the same day.
The population of Israel stands at 8.585 million at the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in its report.
The last of Israel's founding fathers, former Israeli President Shimon Peres and winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize died Tuesday after suffering a stroke two weeks ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of World Jewish Congress (WJC) leaders on Sunday that despite the perception that Israel is isolated, there had been a dramatic expansion of relations with countries recently, including in the Arab world, something that would have been inconceivable just five years ago.
